员
yuán HSK3

member

员 (員) yuán
member measure word
A person engaged in a certain field of activity or belonging to an organization.

他是这个委员会的一员。

tā shì zhè gè wěi​yuán​huì de yī yuán.

He is a member of this committee.

classifier measure word
A numerical classifier for military generals or warriors.

赵云是一员猛将。

Zhào Yún shì yī yuán měng​jiàng.

Zhao Yun was a brave and fierce general.

personnel verb
referring to staff, workers, or persons involved in an organization or service.

公司不得不裁员。

gōng​sī bù​dé​bù cái yuán.

The company had no choice but to lay off employees.

Cross-References

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
200th most common 1034.7 per million
Movie subtitles
265th most common 638.5 per million appears in 83% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
201.6 per million appears in 35% of films
Written text
37.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Traditional
員
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+5458

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)